Pingyang City is somewhat different from Chang'an City, Luoyang City and other large cities in Tongzhou. There is no curfew at night.
After all, this is just a county, and even the county government only has about a dozen government officials at full strength.
If a few more people are assigned to watch the night, it's hard to say whether they can gather two rows of people holding water and fire sticks when the county magistrate goes to court the next day.
It's late at night, and in this silent night, it seems that there are only snowflakes falling rustlingly all over the sky.
"Da da……"
In the city, the sound of rapid horse hooves suddenly broke the silence.
In the darkness, a fast horse broke through the wind and snow, galloping towards Yuelai Inn.
Yuelai Inn.
At this time, the guests staying in the hotel had already fallen asleep, and even the store clerks spread out quilts in the corner of the lobby and wrapped themselves tightly.
Since ancient times, it has been the default rule in the inn industry that the waiter sleeps in the lobby.
First, if you sleep here, you can guard the shop and avoid being visited by thieves and suffering losses.
Secondly, if there is an emergency in this inn, such as a water leak, they can respond early.
However, in the Yuelai Inn, there were not only those few clerks sleeping in the lobby today, but also a shopkeeper who had no room to return to.
The snowy night was a bit cold, and the inn lobby was already empty. The ubiquitous breeze caused goose bumps all over the shopkeeper's body.
"What the hell is this weather! Why is it so cold? Did I say you closed all the doors?"
Feeling a gust of cold wind blowing over his head, the shopkeeper, covered in a thick quilt, shivered and called out to the waiter over there.
When the clerk heard what the shopkeeper said, he didn't dare to neglect it. He quickly showed his head out of the quilt and nodded: "Close it! And I was afraid of the wind at night, so I specially added a latch to the door!"
"Huh... Then it's too cold!"
After taking a look at the door that was indeed closed tightly, the shopkeeper trembled a few times as if his upper and lower teeth were fighting, and then he lay down. But even when he lay down, a small breeze came from all directions, and the shopkeeper was so cold that he even buried his head in it. After getting under the quilt, I felt a little warmer.
"Hey, if I had known it was so cold here, I should have put in more stoves!"
The whole person was curled up in the quilt, like a prawn shop owner who was so busy thinking that he didn't even hear the sound of horse hooves outside getting closer and closer.
"boom……"
Soon, there was a sound of the door being opened, accompanied by a cold wind blowing into the inn.
It immediately woke up all the guys who had just closed their eyes.
"How come the door is open? You bastard, didn't you say you added a latch?"
The shopkeeper in bed also heard the sound of the door opening. He got out of his head with anger on his face and was about to curse, but suddenly he saw a tall figure staggering in from outside the door!
"Who are you?"
I was shocked at first! The shopkeeper was so surprised that he jumped up!
When he took a look through the light that was blown by the wind, he could barely recognize that figure. It seemed that he was one of the people who rented in Languoxuan!
"Why did you come back so late...are you injured?"
Realizing that he knew this person, the shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief and just asked, but suddenly he felt something was wrong!
Why are people's clothes in tatters here? ! If you look closely, you will see that under the rotten clothes, there is a long wound that is still oozing blood, dyeing most of the man's clothes and trousers red!
"Quick! Go call our people..."
At this time, after holding on all the way into the inn, the caravan boss felt that he could no longer hold on any longer. He barely squeezed out these words through his teeth. The next second, he fell headlong with a roar. On the ground!
In fact, there is no need for him to say this.
Seeing this, the smart guy rushed to the back and frantically beat the door of Lan Guxuan.
"Bang bang bang..."
A rapid knock on the door suddenly sounded in the silent night.
In the yard, Xiao Han, who was too sleepy to open his eyes, heard a knock on the door and thought that Xiaofeng's father was back. He yawned and shouted outside: "The boss is back? Stop knocking and come in." , the door is unlocked!"
"Crunch..."
As Xiao Han's words fell, the courtyard door opened in response! But it was not Xiaofeng's father who came in, but a disheveled guy.
"Sir! Your Majesty! It's not good! Your people are injured!"
Unable to see the road clearly in the darkness, the man opened the courtyard door and rushed into the courtyard while crawling. Before he could reach the main room of the courtyard, he screamed at the top of his lungs!
"Who! Who did you say was injured!"
Hearing what the guy shouted, the people in the small courtyard were startled at first, and the next second, all the doors opened almost at the same time!
In an instant, everyone from the caravan, including Cheng Yaojin, rushed out of their rooms and surrounded the guy! Among them, Xiaofeng, who was still wearing a bandage, was even more blushing and looked like he couldn't believe it!
"Who did you just say was injured?" He grabbed the boy and in a hurry, Xiaofeng's hand almost strangled the boy to death.
"It's... he's your man!" The man struggled to say these words, kicking his hands and feet wildly.
"Pa..." Xiaofeng's hand suddenly let go.
Our people? Isn’t it our father who is going out?
Thinking of this, Xiaofeng felt dizzy for a moment, and even the scarred wound on his shoulder began to ooze a little bright red.
Xiaofeng let go, and the guy naturally fell to the ground. However, he didn't have time to blame Xiaofeng. He just pointed to the front of the yard and said: "The person... is in the lobby! Go and have a look! He's seriously injured!"
"Quick! Go and have a look!" Xiao Han shouted eagerly.
In fact, there was no need for him to shout. After hearing what the guy said, everyone present immediately ran away, especially Xiaofeng, who was the fastest!
Xiao Han gritted his teeth and ran a few steps after him. Suddenly he remembered something, stopped suddenly, turned around and shouted at the guy: "How did that man get injured? What kind of injury did he get?"
"I, I don't know how he was injured! He was injured when he entered the house. It seemed to be a stab wound..." The man touched the sore neck from the strangulation and answered inarticulately.
"Knives? Are you encountering Jie Dao again? Hey! It's been a troubled winter!"
Xiao Han cursed angrily, then turned around and rushed back to the room.
Soon, when he came out again, there was a small medicine box on his back.
"Get out of the way! What's going on?!"
He hurriedly rushed to the inn lobby. At this time, a circle of people had formed around the caravan boss. Xiao Han roared, pushed through those people, and rushed to the front.
In the middle of this circle of people, Xiaofeng had already burst into tears.
Next to him, Luo Shixin stretched out a hand and pressed him firmly to the ground, while Cheng Yaojin bit an ear-tip knife and tore off the man's clothes with his hands.
